Home Health Line
01/24/2011

Your agency can boost referrals from physicians and hospitals that work on improving care transitions by demonstrating how you can help them reach their goals.

01/24/2011

Keep a list of county and city resources for your clinicians to refer to and recommend to patients who can’t afford adequate heat to prevent hypothermia and hospitalizations.

01/24/2011

Home health agencies have made great strides in understanding and completing OASIS-C in 2010, but there’s still confusion about many OASIS items.

01/17/2011

As agencies implement the physician face-to-face encounter requirement, don’t forget about another rule that’s remained under the radar but could lead to additional paperwork burdens.

01/17/2011

As your agency works with other providers on care-transition projects, carve out at least one position for a care-transition nurse.

01/17/2011

Home health agencies continue to seek details about how to comply with face-to-face encounter requirements that will be enforced starting April 1.

01/17/2011

CMS revokes July date for PECOS claims denials. In October, the federal Medicare agency said it would start denying home health claims July 5, 2011, if referring physicians weren’t enrolled

01/17/2011

A recent case involving a caregiver in Georgia reminds agencies to examine their background-check process.

01/17/2011

Vet an online background-check vendor before trusting it to conduct those screenings or you could be relying on incomplete or inaccurate information that could put unsafe caregivers into patients’ homes.

01/17/2011

The submission of duplicate claims or duplicate requests for anticipated payment (RAPs) was a common “return to provider” reason for both Palmetto GBA and Cahaba GBA in 2010 and could

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